Kevin O’Sullivan, Cycle Legal Solicitor & Cyclist Campaigner, gives his views on the disappointing news that improvements to this cyclists ‘Wacky Races’ junction have been scrapped.

Transport bosses have performed a dramatic U-turn and scrapped a multi-million pound redesign of the deadly Stamford Hill junction – saying it’s safe enough as it is.

“If accident rates have declined, this is in my view not anything to do with the junction becoming safer but more down to cyclists like me avoiding a junction that in rush hour is like something out of Wacky Races” Kevin O’Sullivan, Cycling Lawyer

Cycling campaigners have been left fuming by TfL’s report, which was published in response to its own three-month consultation earlier this year.

The decision was based partly on a reduction in collisions in the 12 months leading up to February 29. But just four days after that a man was hit by a bus and killed – the first of three serious crashes in as many weeks before the consultation closed.